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MURTAGH OF DUNDALK
« on: Thursday 29 December 05 16:15 UTC (UK) »
SEEKING INFORMATION ON THE MURTAGH FAMILY FROM DUNDALK.  MATTHEW MURTAGH LEFT IN  THE 1890'S TO SETTLE IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA.  IN THE STATES, THE LAST NAME IS SPELLED MURTAUGH BUT WE UNDERSTAND IT WAS MURTAGH IN IRELAND.  A FAMILY FARM WAS CALLED "TANKERS ROCK" AND WAS INHABITED BY MURTAGHS AS LATE AS 1995 (OR LATER). 
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Re: MURTAGH OF DUNDALK
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 10 September 08 15:51 UTC (UK) »
I am descended from a branch of the Murtaughs that all left Dundalk in 1855 and went to Sunderland, Co. Durham in north-east England. Patrick and John ended up as "Murtha" and that is the name that stuck down the generations.

In fact even in the original baptismal records,al three variations of the spelling are present within the family:

Murtha
Murtaugh
Murthaugh

There are still lots of Murthas in Sunderland although my grandfather who married Dorothy Murtha moved to London between the wars.
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Re: MURTAGH OF DUNDALK
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 September 08 17:22 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: CPSdave on Thursday 29 December 05 16:15 UTC (UK)
A FAMILY FARM WAS CALLED "TANKERS ROCK"

The townland name was Tankardsrock- 332 acres in civil parish of Castletown, Dundalk Poor Law Union, Upper Dundalk Barony, Co. Louth.

In 1854 one of the tenants was a Matthew Murtagh:
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_place_search_form.php
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